The Hearing Loss Association of America—Adams/York chapter is a
non-profit organization dedicated to helping people with hearing loss
successfully cope with their hearing losses.
All our meetings are free and you are most welcome to attend and bring your
family or friends. You will fit right in as you will be among people who also
have hearing losses.
Information on Our Next Meeting
Meeting Schedule for 2009
Directions to Meeting Location
Accessibility Information
Contact Information
Information on Our Next Meeting
Hearing Aids: The Latest in Fitting High-Frequency Hearing Losses
Using Frequency Transposition Hearing Aids
Since most hard of hearing people have high-frequency hearing losses,
and since most of the intelligence of speech is in the high frequencies,
when you can't hear high frequency sounds, you have great difficulty
understanding speech. If you don't have any hearing left in the high
frequencies, amplifying these sounds won't help as you won't hear them
anyway.
All is not lost, however. Special frequency-transposing hearing aids
shift these sounds down to frequencies you can still hear. At the
September meeting
of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)—Adams/York chapter,
audiologist James Shafer, Au.D., will explain how these hearing aids can
help you understand speech better, even when conventional hearing aids
don't help you much. He will also talk about the latest in bluetooth
connectivity for hearing aids and how this can benefit you.
The meeting will be held on Thursday September 24, 2009
at 2:00 PM in the Nicarry Meetinghouse at Cross Keys Village—The
Brethren Home Community, 2990 Carlisle Pike in New Oxford. Come and
bring a hard of hearing family member or friend (and your questions)
with you. You are all welcome. There is no charge!
For further information, contact Neil Bauman at 717-993-8555 or email
him at
neil@hearinglosshelp.comm. You can get detailed directions and other
information at
http://www.adamsyorkhlaa.org
(which is right here so don't go anywhere—just scroll up and down).
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Upcoming Events
July — No meeting (summer break)
August — No meeting (summer break)
September 24th— first meeting of the fall (see above for meeting details).
Meeting Schedule for 2009
We meet according to the following schedule:
Fourth Thursday of the month:
Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct
Last Tuesday of the month: Nov
No meetings: Jul, Aug, Dec, Jan
Directions to Meeting Location
Meetings are held in the Nicarry Meetinghouse of the Brethren Home Community
located at the south-west corner of the intersection of Routes 30 and 94
(approximately 5 miles north of Hanover, PA; 12 miles east of Gettysburg; or 25
miles west of York).
To get to the Nicarry Meeting house, from Route 30, turn south into the back
entrance of the Brethren Home Community (approximately 1 block west of the
traffic light at Routes 30 and 94—the name is on the gatepost at the entrance.)
The Nicarry Meeting house is the second building on your left. (It has a
steep green roof). The parking lot is in front of it (on your left).
Go in the main entrance, turn left and go down the hall to where it widens
(you'll see chairs and sofas there). The meeting room is immediately to your
left through either sets of doors. There are signs on both sets of doors.
Meetings are Accessible
Meetings are accessible to hard of hearing people and people in
wheelchairs.
If you are hard of hearing, you can:
- Hear crystal-clear sound through the room loop (if you have t-coils on
your hearing aids).
- Hear though the public address system.
- Sit near the speaker and speechread.
- We have real-time captioning on a screen at
the front (when our captionist can make it—sometimes she has to work at that
time).
Contact Information
Contact the chapter coordinator for more information.
Neil Bauman
49 Piston Court
Stewartstown, PA 17363
Phone: 717-993-8555
Email: neil@hearinglosshelp.com
The Adams/York HLAA chapter website is right here at
http:/www.adamsyorkhlaa.org.
This website is sponsored by:
The Center for Hearing Loss Help
http://www.hearinglosshelp.com "where
you will receive the information, support and counsel
you need
in order to live
an exciting and fulfilling life
in spite of your hearing loss"
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